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chumping
/ ˈʃʌɪŋ /
noun
- dialect.collecting wood for bonfires on Guy Fawkes Day
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of chumping1
Example Sentences
Or, press his teeth to hear chumping sounds.
The sea cows went on schlooping and grazing, and chumping in the weed, and Kotick asked them questions in every language that he had picked up in his travels; and the Sea People talk nearly as many languages as human beings.
At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy.
"It's as dry as chumping chaff!" she confided dismally.
They have a great objection in these parts to feed any particular horse, or horses, except at the same time with all the others, believing that those of the animals who have nothing to eat, hearing the others chumping their corn, are made envious.
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